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" One of the countless symbolic or allegorical images of the sexual act is a deer hunt: A detail from a painting by the 16th-century German artist Cranach. The sexual implication of the deer hunt is underlined by a medieval English folk song called “The Keeper”:
The first doe that he shot at he missed,
And the second doe he trimmed he kissed,
And the third ran away in a young man’s heart,
She’s amongst the leaves of the green O. "

C.G. Jung , Man and His Symbols


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C.G. Jung quote : One of the countless symbolic or allegorical images of the sexual act is a deer hunt: A detail from a painting by the 16th-century German artist Cranach. The sexual implication of the deer hunt is underlined by a medieval English folk song called “The Keeper”:<br />The first doe that he shot at he missed,<br />And the second doe he trimmed he kissed,<br />And the third ran away in a young man’s heart,<br />She’s amongst the leaves of the green O.